Hooke Point
Hooke Point is a point near the head of Lallemand Fjord, in Graham Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from surveys and air photos, 1946–59, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert Hooke, an English experimental physicist and author of Micrographia, which contains one of the earliest known descriptions of ice crystals.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cape
- Description: Point in Graham Land, Antarctica
- Also known as: “Hooke”
Hooke Point
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hooke Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hooke”
- Chinese: “胡克角”
- Dutch: “Hooke”
- German: “Hooke Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hooke Point”
- Spanish: “Hooke, punta”
- Swedish: “Hooke Point”
- Swedish: “Hooke”
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